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Civil Rights MemorialsMaster and Slaves - Newport News VA

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Marker located on the grounds of Lee Hall Mansion, Yorktown Road (Virginia Route 238), Newport News , VA USA 23603.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/24/2023

last visited: 08/24/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsFranklin Street Baptist Church [Historic] - St. Charles, MO

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This structure in the Frenchtown Historic District is classified as C. This church today is the Freedom Church.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Missouri

date approved: 08/24/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsFranklin School - St. Charles, MO

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Built as a private school by St. Borromeo, sold to city school district for Black students.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Missouri

date approved: 08/23/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsWar Comes to Fairfield - Woodford VA

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War brought profound changes to the Chandler family, Fairfield, and the slaves who toiled on the plantation. Three of Thomas Chandler’s sons enlisted in the Confederate army.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/22/2023

last visited: 08/22/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsJoseph Smith, Jr. - Carthage, IL

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After founding FAR WEST, and losing the "Mormon War" in MO; he moved to Illinois, and things got worse.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Illinois

date approved: 08/19/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsThe Chancellor Slaves The Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville VA

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Their names are unrecorded, their labors are rarely noted. No images of them survive. But slaves outnumbered Chancellor family members when Frances Chancellor moved into this house in 1861.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/11/2023

last visited: 08/18/2014

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Civil Rights MemorialsAndres Bello - Los Angeles, CA

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A bust of Venezuelan-Chilean humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, Andres Bello. His political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote

location: California

date approved: 08/11/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsFor All Anguish – For Some Freedom - Waverly Village VA

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Most white Spotsylvanians owned small farms of a few hundred acres. More than 6,000 slaves – half the county’s population – toiled on these farms, usually in groups of two or three, often alongside their owners.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/09/2023

last visited: 08/09/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsBen Franklin - Riverside, CA

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A quote from Ben Franklin in Riverside, California.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote

location: California

date approved: 08/05/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsJames Robinson House - Manassas VA

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To the south stood the farmhouse of James Robinson, a former slave freed by Landon Carter. There, during the First Battle of Manassas on 21 July 1961, Col. Wade Hampton’s Legion covered the Confederates falling back to Henry Hill.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/02/2023

last visited: 08/03/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsBetty Washington - Brandy Station VA

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Marker is near Brandy Station, VA in Culpeper County at Brandy Road (Business U.S. 15/29), Brandy Station VA 22714. The marker was erected in 2000 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number F-12.)

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 08/02/2023

last visited: 08/03/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsMonumento a la Constitución de 1978 - Madrid, España

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Obra del arquitecto Miguel Ángel Ruiz Larrea // Work of the architect Miguel Ángel Ruiz Larrea

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member xeocach

location: Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

date approved: 07/31/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsAllen-White School - Whiteville, TN

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Look at the Wikipedia picture for the building in 2010, and my photos of 2016.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/30/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsHardesty-Higgins House - Harrisonburg VA

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A young slave woman named Fanny cooked the soldiers’ rations in exchange for a share, which she took to wounded Confederates in a nearby hospital. At the end of the occupation, Fanny and her elderly parents left for freedom with Sheridan’s army.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 07/28/2023

last visited: 07/28/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsTragic Accident Sparks Sanitation Strike - Memphis, TN

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A plaque about the Sanitation Strike of 1968. The strike brought MLK to Memphis, where he gave his last speech of his life.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/23/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsExchange Hotel - Gordonsville, Virginia

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AFTER THE WAR In the reconstruction period, this hospital served the newly freed slaves as a Freedman's Bureau Hospital. As the United States healed and the railroads boomed, this graceful building again became a hotel and enjoyed a fine reputation.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: Virginia

date approved: 07/19/2023

last visited: 07/19/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsThis is Sullivan's Island - Sullivans Island SC

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A place where...Africans were brought to this country under extreme conditions of human bondage and degradation. Tens of thousands of captives arrived on Sullivan's Island from the West African shores between 1700 and 1775.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: South Carolina

date approved: 07/18/2023

last visited: 07/18/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsLegend of the Cherokee Rose & Cherokee Dead - Brownfield, IL

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In the Field - Trovillion Cemetery outside Brownfield, where they spent the night during the Trail of Tears March.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Illinois

date approved: 07/14/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsAfrican Influence ~ St. Charles, MO

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One of 6 markers on the courthouse lawn about the area

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.

location: Missouri

date approved: 07/11/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsThe Lee Sisters - Memphis, TN

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A plaque to the Lee Sisters in Memphis, TN.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/11/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsThe Necessary Ingredient-Malden's Salt Works - Malden WV

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Born into slavery on a Virginia farm, nine-year old Booker T. Washington moved to Malden with his family in 1865 after the war ended. He packed salt, mined coal, and worked for the wealthy Ruffner family.

posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Don.Morfe

location: West Virginia

date approved: 07/10/2023

last visited: 07/11/2023

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Civil Rights MemorialsMaxine Atkins Smith - Memphis, TN

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A plaque to Maxine Atkins Smith.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/10/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsJoseph Hanover - Memphis, TN

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A plaque to Joseph Hanover.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/10/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsMary Church Terrell - Memphis, TN

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A plaque to Mary Church Terrel.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/10/2023

last visited: never

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Civil Rights MemorialsLide Smith Meriwether - Memphis, TN

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A plaque to Lide Smith Meriwether.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1

location: Tennessee

date approved: 07/10/2023

last visited: never

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